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HELP! My 300GB hard drive shrunk to 40GB!!!!!!

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Posted 26 January 2007 - 10:12 PM

I used a program to clone the Windows XP installation on my C: hard drive to my D: hard drive. C: is 40GB and D: is 300GB. The clone worked, and I was able to boot to Windows from D: (as master) now.BUUUUTTTTT I chose the wrong option to have C: copy "As Is" over to D:, meaning that it now made D: only 40GB, leaving 260GB as "unallocated space." So I set my original hard drive as master and booted Windows from my original C: drive, and hooked up the D: drive as a slave again, so I could wipe it and do the clone again. I used the XP disc to try to reformat the entire D: back to 300GB. * I used my Seagate disc to COMPLETELY write zeros on the whole thing.ANDNOTHING is making my motherboard see this D: drive as 300GB, is there ANY way I can get all my space back? :(
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Posted 27 January 2007 - 08:35 AM

There are programs that can make a partition larger such as Acronis Disk Director that are one idea. Another idea would be to create another partition on the disk that uses the 260 GB of space.Regards,JB
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Posted 28 January 2007 - 07:28 PM

What is the Make and Model number of your HDD ?
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